sshd problem

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Tom Spec <samag70-ignore at yahoo.ca> writes:
>    The .ssh directory MUST be drwx------ user user and the
>    authorized_keys file MUST be -rw-------.

I don't believe sshd requires non-readable for either ~/.ssh
or ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.  755 and 644 should be good enough.

     $ ll -d ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
     2 drwxr-xr-x  7 wolfgang  wsrcc   512B May 23 08:53 /home/wolfgang/.ssh/
     4 -rw-r--r--  1 wolfgang  wsrcc   2.8K Mar 25 11:59 /home/wolfgang/.ssh/authorized_keys

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/